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Haunting Modernity and the Gothic Presence in British Modernist Literature

Author : Daniel Darvay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319326610

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Haunting Modernity and the Gothic Presence in British Modernist Literature by Daniel Darvay Pdf

This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic criticism and expanding the range of cultural material that falls under the banner of this tradition, Daniel Darvay focuses on how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British writers transform the artifice of Gothic ruins into building blocks for a distinctively modernist architecture of questions, concerns, images, and arguments. To make this argument, Darvay takes readers back to early exemplars of the genre thematically rooted in the English Reformation, tracing it through significant Victorian transformations to finally the modernist period. Through writers such as Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, this book ultimately expands the boundaries of the Gothic genre and provides a fresh, new approach to better understanding the modernist movement.

Haunting Biology

Author : Emma Kowal
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478027539

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Haunting Biology by Emma Kowal Pdf

In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century.

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

Author : Roger C. Aden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498563246

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Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall by Roger C. Aden Pdf

This book explores how ephemeral and displaced public memories continue to linger and circulate around the National Mall in Washington, DC. Chapters examine unrecognized historical events on the Mall, selective interpretations of the past within the Mall’s sites, and places of public memory hiding in plain sight.

Haunting Presences

Author : Kate Griffiths (College teacher),David Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arts, French
ISBN : MINN:31951D02914386A

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Haunting Presences by Kate Griffiths (College teacher),David Evans Pdf

In response to the current critical fascination with phantoms and haunting, this volume explores and assesses the twentieth century s pursuit of the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship, and memory. Tracing the changing form of the haunting in a variety of French media, "Haunting Presences" considers the role of both the past and textual memory in different periods and genres. Accompanied by a substantial introduction that explains the volume s insight into the evolution and history of the ghost as an artistic presence, this imaginative collection is a must for anyone with an interest in French culture and ghostly fascinations."

The Haunting

Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Headline
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755350483

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The Haunting by Paul Doherty Pdf

Called upon to exorcise dark spirits, will Father Oliver live to tell the tale? Paul Doherty delves into the murky world of the Victorian ghost story in The Haunting, a spine-chilling tale of the unknown. Perfect for fans of The Others and Susan Hill's The Woman in Black. In October 1866, Father Oliver Grafeld is brought from his parish work for an interview with Archbishop Manning of Westminster. Oliver is a hard-working, committed priest, and he has one gift - that of the exorcism of 'divining spirits'. The Archbishop tells Oliver that Lady Seaton, owner of Candleton Hall in Norfolk, has appealed to the Church for assistance in allaying the terrifying and haunting experiences taking place at the Hall. Father Oliver goes to Candleton and within hours, he and his sister Emma have first-hand experience of the phenomena: pools of blood form on the floor, a woman dressed in black walks the Long Gallery, the sound of knocking, cries in the night and hurried footsteps and, above all, a sense of malevolence which seeps through the house. Painstakingly, Oliver, a natural scholar, delves into the family secrets of the Seatons and finds chilling truths which span four centuries. What readers are saying about The Haunting: 'This is truly one of Doherty's masterpieces' 'The reader is hooked from page one, a page turner of the first order' 'By far the most gripping and interesting book I have read for a long time'

Haunted Media

Author : Jeffrey Sconce
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822325721

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Haunted Media by Jeffrey Sconce Pdf

Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television.

Subversive Spirits

Author : Robin Roberts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496815590

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The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows--the female ghost. Inherently liminal, often literally invisible, the female ghost has nevertheless appeared in all genres. Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture brings this figure into the light, exploring her cultural significance in a variety of media from 1926 to 2014. Robin Roberts argues that the female ghost is well worth studying for what she can tell us about feminine subjectivity in cultural contexts. Subversive Spirits examines appearances of the female ghost in heritage sites, theater, Hollywood film, literature, and television in the United States and the United Kingdom. What holds these disparate female ghosts together is their uncanny ability to disrupt, illuminate, and challenge gendered assumptions. As with other supernatural figures, the female ghost changes over time, especially responding to changes in gender roles. Roberts's analysis begins with comedic female ghosts in literature and film and moves into horror by examining the successful play The Woman in Black and the legend of the weeping woman, La Llorona. Roberts then situates the canonical works of Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison in the tradition of the female ghost to explore how the ghost is used to portray the struggle and pain of women of color. Roberts further analyzes heritage sites that use the female ghost as the friendly and inviting narrator for tourists. The book concludes with a comparison of the British and American versions of the television hit Being Human, where the female ghost expands her influence to become a mother and savior to all humanity.

Science And the Modern World

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387306835

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Science And the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Author : R. Arias,P. Pulham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230246744

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Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction by R. Arias,P. Pulham Pdf

Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.

Spirit Hunter

Author : Philip Monk,Jeremy Blake
Publisher : Art Gallery of York University
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 092197244X

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Spirit Hunter by Philip Monk,Jeremy Blake Pdf

The book ranges widely through frontier myth, American foreign policy, technology, war, film history, psychoanalytic theory (Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok's cryptonymy), and philosophy (Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas), as it weaves art analysis into the troubled history of a social artifact. As Blake tells his story purely through images issuing as haunting from the architecture of Winchester house, Spirit Hunter pursues its speculation on the secrets Sarah Winchester shielded through her fabled mansion into the image itself to question whether she was hostage to her haunting or to national myth.

The Presence of the Absent

Author : Carlos E. Sluzki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317537120

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The Presence of the Absent by Carlos E. Sluzki Pdf

Where live our most cherished (or painful) memories? Where do our beloved (or dreaded) exist when departed? In the gray zone between our self and our world, they can exist as internal reminiscences for some and striking images for others; individually or collectively perceived and interacted; vividly or as tenuous presences. This book familiarizes us with six examples of individuals and families in therapy who live and interact with the presence of their absent, pivotal people in their lives who either died or disappeared, but are still there. It familiarizes us with their plight in a tender, compassionate style, describing in detail interviews and therapeutic transformations and, in several cases, follow-ups as well as echoes of those processes. It teaches us to respect those presences as well as how to help families and individuals treasure them...and in many cases to let them go. Written in a vivid, intense language, The Presence of the Absent offers a marvelous insight into these processes that may prove transformative for the therapist (both family and individually-oriented), as well as enlightening to the general public.

The Haunting of the Presidents

Author : Joel Martin,William J. Birnes
Publisher : Konecky Konecky
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 1568527586

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The Haunting of the Presidents by Joel Martin,William J. Birnes Pdf

The history of paranormal phenomena in the presidential residence is revealed for the first time in a fascinating exploration of the country's most famous portal to the unknown.

Ghosts, Possessions, and Unexplained Presences

Author : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502628534

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Ghosts, Possessions, and Unexplained Presences by Kate Shoup Pdf

Since the beginning of humanity, many people have supported the idea of spirits, ghosts, and an afterlife. This book explores some well-known and frightening real-life encounters and looks to what scientific approaches have been tested to prove or disprove the existence of these otherworldly presences. Complete with photographs, firsthand accounts, elaborate hoaxes, and scientific evidence, this book explores the otherworldly and is sure to enthrall the inner ghost hunter.

The Haunting of the Tenth Avenue Theater

Author : Alex Matsuo
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738745602

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The Haunting of the Tenth Avenue Theater by Alex Matsuo Pdf

Is San Diego’s renowned Tenth Avenue Theater home to an unlikely cast of ghosts — and if so, what has kept the spirits of the dead bound to this venue of entertainment and illusion? From reports of a child’s tragic death on the premises to a suicide stemming from overwhelming guilt, there is grief, turmoil, and unfinished business lingering within these walls. Alex Matsuo, an actress by day and a ghost hunter by night, was granted unlimited access to the haunted property where she has performed as an actor and staged professional readings of her plays. Investigating the popular and thriving theater she has always considered home, Alex must unravel the turbulent history of the building in order to find out why the ghosts of the Tenth never want to leave.

Haunting the Knowledge Economy

Author : Jane Kenway,Elizabeth Bullen,Johannah Fahey,Simon Robb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134198481

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Haunting the Knowledge Economy by Jane Kenway,Elizabeth Bullen,Johannah Fahey,Simon Robb Pdf

This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal.